Modern and Coherent
E seem to have had quite a bit of : Vaughan Williams fr Dunedin stations lately; or it ay We that I’m addicted to his music and constantly looking for examples of it. There are probably hundreds of "Water-Mills" in existence, but surely not many so subtle
as the song of that name by this composer, I don’t know the author of the words (it would be an idea for announcers to give us the name of the author as well as that of the composer), but it’s a curiously meandering poem telling of the uneventful life of the miller and his wife and his children and his cat, "a tabby, lean as a healthy cat can be." This unusual setting by
Vaughan Williams, in its lengthy phrasing and monotonous rhythm, is nicely calculated to produce a picture of a busy life, its background the ceaselessly turning mill-wheel. I find Vaughan Williams modern without being incoherent, and feel sure that we could have much more of him in our radio programmes without a feeling of surfeit.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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178Modern and Coherent New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 292, 26 January 1945, Page 6
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